Talk:Brass Ankles

My Fathers father side of the my family are from the greater Santee( Eutawville Greeleyville and Cross SC, area and we’re called like a lot of other family Brassankles. They left in the 1940s right after my father was born. They migrated south into Colleton county. South Carolina my father particularly told me. That he was tease thing called a brass ankle when they moved to Walterboro which is in Colleton County. I’m 50 years old and grew up in Walterboro half my life, my family and other families who we were for to the mix Indian families will call Brassankles. In my time, but those are the brass ankle families were not out of the cross crane pond Holly Hill, Eutawville area, where they could put a claim on that name those families in colleton county were born and raised there, and have no relations to side of those are the counties. That name brass ankles with a regional term for Orangeburg counties Berkeley counties Williamsburg county Dorchester county in Orangeburg county you’re gonna find that term a population of the mixed peoples. Whoever put a claim that the Brassankles is from 3 or 4 family names, and that they are out of Holly Hill South Carolina that’s a outright lie and I can prove it every time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jmweans (talk • contribs) 20:48, 12 October 2023 (UTC)

Alice Dunbar-Nelson
Just wanted to note that the article implies that "Brass Ankles" is primarily a designation found in the Carolinas, but I'm not sure how true that is. The New Orleanian Alice Dunbar Nelson, who was a figure of the early Harlem Renaissance, wrote a personal essay called "Brass Ankles Speaks" (scroll down), about her difficulties as a child fitting in because she was "yellow" instead of "black". Cynwolfe (talk) 17:41, 22 February 2015 (UTC)

Untrue Article
That name Brassankle does not belong to 5 or 6 families in Holly Hill SC, I’m from Walterboro, SC “ Colleton County” and I as well as my family and the other families know to be mixed in that whole Black/Indian/White community have been called Brassankles since my fathers days and my days as well, that name probably originated in that general area because of the proximity of 5 counties that meet east of Santee SC, but it does not designate a definite County, Town and family. It’s like whoever decided to edit the page was given information from somewhere to separate them from the other surrounding families of the tri-racial mixtures, you can go to The Eadies in Cross SC, also The Weans in Colleton County SC or those Creels in Cottageville and Four holes swamp area of Dorchester county and These families I grew up with and you know the other families that were Brassankles and that’s because that’s what we were called mainly as a derogatory name or like when my grandmother on my mothers side use to talk about my grandfather family on my fathers side and will always say “ Them dam Brassankles “ if that term was used to describe I know for shore 3 other families in Colleton County I can imagine the other mixed families in 5 other counties. That name don’t not belong to families in Holly Hill by it self they need to re-edit this quick or I will!! 2601:152:680:DEC0:4D31:1AE5:E201:A04B (talk) 00:17, 7 July 2022 (UTC)